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...newest culinary hot spot, where both dishes and drinks are infused with fragrance. Chef Daniel Patterson has created recipes that use essential oils derived from such ingredients as saffron, grapefruit and coriander. Scented syrups, sugars and salts are melded into dishes like green tea-scented chicken soup and pork chops with coffee fig sauce, as well as specialty cocktails like the Fountain of Youth, whose ingredients include lime vodka, fresh cucumber-and-honeydew puree and essence of spearmint. Peers such as acclaimed chef David Kinch of the restaurant Manresa in Los Gatos, California, salute Patterson for breaking new ground...
Back in Cambridge, however, Bush liked to catch his three-for-99-cents pork special on Tuesdays at a local restaurant. Online gossip has it that nowadays, he’d order that with a diet soda and some pralines and cream ice cream for dessert, his supposed favorites...
...course, such a discussion remains unlikely so long as the majority of congressmen remain content bringing home pork-barrel projects to their constituents. These leaders have no real incentive to plead for less money for their state’s defense. While the Department of Homeland Security maintains some veto power over how the money is spent, fixing this problem requires strong leadership from the executive branch. No action is likely unless the white house transforms this matter from a funding allocation issue into a significant political issue. And in this tight election season, such action is all but definitely...
...agency with a mission as important as that of the Department of Homeland Security should be above the base politics of pork-barrel spending. While states like California and Florida stretch about $20 a head to secure their ports, tourist attractions, major cities and so on, the safety of the whole nation is put in jeopardy. Alaska should not be the only place in America where it is possible to feel that the government is doing its best to keep citizens safe...
...faces state attorney general Ken Salazar, 49, who has done a savvy job of playing up his humble rancher's roots; as he drives around in a pickup truck, the pro-choice Catholic calls for prescription-drug imports from Canada and a rollback of the Patriot Act. While attacking pork-barrel spending, Coors has stressed his business acumen and conservative values (favorite book: the Bible). Lately he has gotten flak for his family's outsourcing of jobs--a little reminder that wealth and fame can be a double-edged sword...